Public Clan Rankings Plugin - RELEASED

[Hach-Que]

Clan Rankings Plugin

This plugin displays the top 10 scoring clans on the left side of the player's screen as well as submits the scoring back to the database. Best of all, it uses a public database, so all the clan scores are shared across servers.

Please see the license file before using this plugin. There are two exceptions to the license that is not mentioned; you may remove the Roket Enterprises button which the plugin draws, and you may modify the plugin to rearrange where the data is displayed.

~ Screenshot ~


~ Features ~

• Shows top 10 clans on the left hand side of the screen.
• Clan list is updated each time the player visits through a checkpoint (this is not possible at the end of the race due to the dedicated server callback restrictions).
• /cregister function allows clans to register themselves on the public DB.
• Automatically notifies the server administrator when a new version is available (the clan ranking plugin won't send or retrieve records until it is updated either).
• Database of clan rankings can be changed via XML (not much point though as you need to write your own server backend for it, and this feature is useless for private clan servers)
• Toggle sending scores to main clan database via XML configuration.
• Toggle showing top 10 scores via XML configuration.

~ Planned Features ~

• Shows the position of the clan the player belongs to if the clan is not in the top 10.
• Player-in-clan ranking possibly?
• Bonus points scored for achieving a server record > 500.
• Toggle Roket Productions button via XML.
• If a clan owns the server, it is shown with an author medal in the top 10 ranking.

~ Download ~
http://www.roket-enterprises.com/trackm ... king10.zip

[nocturne]

Alright, so it tracks attaining track medals, and awards points for such, which are calculated into a clan total? Using server records or finish positions wouldn't be a good method at all, though, as they require too different a skill level on different servers...

Overall, it sounds like a great idea -- I'm just worried it'll end up as corrupted as other public db solutions (*cough*DM*cough*). Making it a 'per-server' system, relying on a few simple mysql tables to store info, might end up being the most secure and stable solution -- plus it won't require you to run the back end.

[Hach-Que]

At the moment, it gets the differences between the players time and other players that are not in the same clan's time and that becomes the score, although we have realised that this doesn't work to well for short or small tracks (where time difference is in milliseconds, and players don't achieve much score) or really long or difficult tracks (where time difference is in minutes, and players receive massive score).

So I really need someway of determining whether or not a track is short/medium/long and then working out whether or not I should multiply the score by 10 (short), leave it as is (medium), or divide by 10 (long), however I'm just not sure how to go about this.


Another problem I'm also having is PHP and UTF-8, and it's really starting to get annoying. You might have to wait more than a day until this comes out now because it's no longer working for me

[nocturne]

I think for your utf8 problem, htmlspecialchars() might help...

About the point calculation... I don't know how reliable that method will be. You're going to end up with a huge db, where simply queries are going to take a heck of a long time. A points based system would be nice -- I guess based on track medals (at end of track, award points based on whether the registered player gets a gold, silver, or bronze time). Even better, would be a simple facsimile of the original TMN team ranking -- just store up the player points, and come up with an equation to balance out total team points with avg team player points. It'd be a very simple and effective solution, which would be easy to implement on a large scale.

[Hach-Que]

Okay, I've got it working again. Once we get the scoring methodology straightened out, it should be ready for public release.

[Hach-Que]

I think for your utf8 problem, htmlspecialchars() might help...

About the point calculation... I don't know how reliable that method will be. You're going to end up with a huge db, where simply queries are going to take a heck of a long time. A points based system would be nice -- I guess based on track medals (at end of track, award points based on whether the registered player gets a gold, silver, or bronze time). Even better, would be a simple facsimile of the original TMN team ranking -- just store up the player points, and come up with an equation to balance out total team points with avg team player points. It'd be a very simple and effective solution, which would be easy to implement on a large scale.

Not really, you have 1 query for selecting all of the clan's information (including existing LP), and 1 query for each clan that needs to be updated.

[jeffroselier]

Is what this plugin is compatible with xaseco 1.04?

Thank you

[Hach-Que]

I don't know if it is compatible with XASECO; I've designed to to work with ASECO, but you can try.

[Xymph]

I don't know if it is compatible with XASECO; I've designed to to work with ASECO, but you can try.

A/R2 plugins are never compatible with XAseco (and vice versa), unless specifically designed for both. AFAIK, Fufi's Widgets and AutoQueue are the only two such plugins.

[nocturne]

Xaseco is built off of aseco .6, so it's not altogether too hard to port a plugin back to it. You just need to replace all the private strings with globals in each function, and alter the plugin format to fit aseco .6; and it should work (excuse the bad programming grammar... I don't know what this stuff means -- I just cut-and-paste).

[Hach-Que]

Ah, the life which contains retarded parents.

"Apparently" my parents didn't realize that other people would be connecting to an online, multiplayer dedicated server, and hence, I am no longer allowed to run a TM server. This also means that I can't test or develop this plugin further.

Sorry guys, don't blame me; blame my parents.

[w1lla]

If you want i would like to continue this project and make it available to other projects.

Yes i am a busy man with 4 kind of projects but love,like to help all of us.

[Greco]

good plugin

[oliverde8]

It would be nice if it would fetch team informations through TM-Teams?